Undergraduate Course: Pragmatics (LASC10067)
Course Outline
School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
Summary | The study of Pragmatics focuses on language meaning in context. In this course we discuss a range of pragmatic phenomena from both theoretical and experimental perspectives. We emphasize the role of pragmatics across a range of sub-disciplines within linguistics. |
Course description |
The course is about how language acquires meaning in context. In many situations, what speakers mean goes beyond what they explicitly say. This course discusses formal models which have been proposed for explaining how these meanings are conveyed between cooperative interlocutors. Specific topics include presuppositions and implicatures, which often arise within the sentence, as well as higher level discourse phenomena such as coreference and coherence. We examine these using both naturally occurring data and the results of experimental investigation.
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Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites | Visiting students should have at least 3 Linguistics/Language Sciences courses at grade B or above (or be predicted to obtain this). We will only consider University/College level courses. |
High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Understand and discuss important concepts in pragmatics
- Analyse naturally occurring linguistic data for both structure and function
- Evaluate different kinds of explanation in the field of pragmatics
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Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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Keywords | pragmatics,meaning,context |
Contacts
Course organiser | Dr Christopher Cummins
Tel: (0131 6)50 6858
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Course secretary | Mr Liam Hedley
Tel: (0131 6)50 9870
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